Research
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Current Research Projects
- "Who owns the street? Urban negotiations about the uses of space in the context of the 'Verkehrswende'" (DFG, 2023-2028)
- Contestations of ‘the Social’ – Towards a Movement-based Ethnographic Social (State) Regime Analysis
- Actors - Narratives - Strategies. Constellations of Transnational Folklore Research, 1875-1905 (DFG/German Research Foundation, 2022-2027)
- "Ambivalentes Geschlechterwissen. Aushandlungen kultureller Differenz in feministischen Initiativen der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft" - DFG, Laufzeit: 2022-2025
- Dissecting Society. Nineteenth-Century Sociographic Journalism and the Formation of Ethnographic and Sociological Knowledge (ERC Starting Grant, Laufzeit: 01.05.2020-30.04.2025)
- Playing in the loop: New Human-Software Relations in Human Computation Systems and their Impacts on the Spheres of Everyday Life” (DFG/ German Research Foundation, 11/2021–12/2024)
- E-Uropa Akte Linxweiler – (Post-)koloniale Beziehungsweisen - Künstlerische Forschung mit Prof. Angelika Levi, gefördert durch das Programm Künstlerkontakte des ifa - Projektnummer KK-1129/2022
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Completed Research Projects
- DFG-Projekt im Rahmen des SFB 1369 „Vigilanzkulturen. Transformationen – Räume -Techniken“ (2019-2023)
- Confidence as a means of labor – an ethnographic study on the role of aesthetics and practices of the banking business in Germany and Switzerland (DFG 2017- 2020)
- Urban Ethics. Conflicts about the good and proper conduct of life in 20th and 21st century cities (DFG-research group 2015 - 2021)
- Precarious Retirement - Work and the Conduct of Life of Women in their Pension Age (DFG, 2015 - 2018)
- Divided Country, Divided Families? The Emigration from GDR to BRD in the familial remembrance of migrants and those left behind (DFG, 2012 - 2019)
- „‘Wa(h)re Mutterschaft‘. Eine ethnografische Studie über ästhetische Praktiken von Mütterbloggerinnen“ (DFG, Laufzeit: 1.1.2021-31.12.2023)
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International PhD Programme: Transformations in European Societies
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PhD and PostDoc Projects
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1-year-Research Seminars for MA Students